Monday, July 13, 2009

MUIS Open House

Bismillāh ar-Rahmān ar-Rahīm In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Did you drop by MUIS Open House today? Well if you did you would have really been busy running around the place trying to answer all the questions and to get a chop prepared by the MUIS stuff. I thought this was a very interesting concept and great way to get the public to really know more about MUIS. At every floor, we had to look through the posters, decorations or ask the MUIS Ambassadors the right question to receive an answer. The journey was fun. We started at Level 1 of the MUIS building where that had these montages of MUIS history from the day AMLA started to the current situation. I can say our Muslim Community had really come very far since those days.

They say, "If you want to move forward, you need to know the past".

If you do have the time drop by MUIS and have a look at all the exhibits. The next floor is where the Zakat Department is. So the next quiz allowed us to learn more about Zakat Distributions or they called it the 8 Hasnafs. Also this was the place where we spent most of time there because we were stuck playing a Financial Game. The little sisters were playing the game with us. The objective of the game was to teach us about managing money. Its quite a hard game to play as it make you pay, pay and pay. Anyway we got a lot of tidbits here and we took away some knowledge on managing money. At the next station on the next floor, we were introduced to the Fatwa section and the Court. Below is a shot of the cour [...]